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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:51:38 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC Proposal] var keyword deprecation/removal
From: walterp@gmail.com (Walter Parker)

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>
>
> That we should definitely avoid. I do not consider the *var* keyword
> being a discussion about coding style preferences---this decision was
> already made in PHP 5! The *public* keyword was introduced and it
> superseded the *var* keyword including an E_STRICT error. Hence, this
> discussion is not about whether this was good, correct, or whatever
> decision: it is already done! This is about clean-up of the old unwanted
> way of doing it and by now maybe even a discussion about clean-up in
> general.
>
> TL;DR Clean-up is important but there must be an easy to follow
> migration path and enough time. We have both here, still +1
>
> --
> Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger
>
>
If this cleanup is such a good idea, why did it take 12 years for someone
to suggest it. Why wasn't var removed years ago? What is the sudden urgency
to remove it now?

Have programmer become more confused? This alias does not appear to have
been an issue for the last 12 years.

What has changed? Are we on a cusp of the paradigm change (the type that
happens when the old folk have gone away, so the younger folk can get their
way because they now have the numbers)?


Walter

-- 
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of
zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.   -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

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